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of introduction from the Rev. Mr. Dieill, and here I met several 

 other missionaries, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Dibble. 

 These gentlemen are all more or less concerned in the manage- 

 ment of the high school, but Mr. Andrews is the principal. It 

 was commenced by him in the year 1831. For some time it 

 was held under a simple ranai, or shed, made of grass, and 

 since then it has gone on increasing and improving with a ra- 

 pidity almost unprecedented. It now consists of about seventy- 

 ►five scholars, chiefly boys, and the improvement of many of them 

 is surprising. From all that I can learn, (for the school is at 

 present closed, and I have not had an opportunity of seeing the 

 pupils,) the advancement manifested by them is fully equal, in 

 every respect, to those of similar seminaries in our own country. 

 Attached to this branch of the mission is a printing office, in 

 which the operatives are natives, under the superintendence of 

 Mr. Rogers. Mr. Andrews showed us impressions of maps of 

 different parts of the world, which have been engraved on copper 

 by the pupils. These efforts are exceedingly creditable, not only 

 to the boys themselves, but to their tutors, showing the untiring 

 perseverance with which they must have labored, especially as 

 none of them had ever before seen the operation performed. Mr. 

 Andrews is a very indefatigable and most superior man, as his 

 works abundantly testify. Contending, as he constantly is, 

 against indisposition, he attends most diligently and faithfully to 

 the peculiarly arduous duties of the school, and during the very 

 few hours of relaxation which each day affords, he is busily en- 

 gaged in writing for the benefit of the mission, and its objects. 

 He is the author of " A Vocabulary of the Hawaiian Language," 

 published at these islands some years since, and he is now em- 

 ployed on a new and much enlarged edition of the same work. 



On the morning of the 17th, we made the island of Hawaii, and, 

 approaching with a free wind, soon let go our anchor in the bay 

 of Karakakiia. The land here is composed almost entirely of 



